Central bank heads agree on consensus, but reject groupthink
French, Nigerian and Swiss chiefs discuss their diverse approaches to monetary policy decision making
Leaders of the French, Nigerian and Swiss central banks shared their approaches to committee-based monetary policy decisions, and how such decisions should be communicated, on a panel before a global audience of economic policy-makers.
The discussion, which took place at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings in Bangkok on October 14, was moderated by the institution’s first deputy managing director Dan Katz.
A monetary policy decision is the end point of a very long processMartin
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